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Mar 01, 2020

Virginia Trimble is a Legacy FellowIn February, Virginia Trimble, an astronomer in the UCI Department of Physics and Astronomy, became a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). This is the first time in its 121-year history that the AAS has given fellowships of any kind to its members, and, through its Legacy...

Dead monster galaxy found lurking in the distant universeThe galaxy, XMM-2599, existed 12 billion years ago. It rapidly formed a bunch of stars and died, according to data and measurements astronomers took using the W. M. Keck Observatory's Multi-Object Spectrograph for Infrared Exploration. The observatory is near the summit of the dormant Mauna Kea...

Feb 03, 2020

Do Spider-Man, Superman break the laws of physics?Superman would have known that momentum equals mass times velocity and that Newton’s third law of physics states every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Superman, Spider-Man, Flash, Captain America and the rest of the Marvel and DC superheroes could have learned what the hundreds of...

Jan 29, 2020

The Speed KingWeiss, who sits on the scientific advisory board of ULB, from which he plans to launch future companies, is heading to his office, clear on the other side of campus, in the Natural Sciences I building.
This is no leisurely stroll. The 49-year-old, who’s also a professor of molecular biology &...

UCI chemists find fungal shrapnel in the airIn a discovery that has implications for our understanding of the air we breathe, UCI chemists report that they’ve found nanoscale fragments of fungal cells in the atmosphere. The pieces are extremely small, measuring about 30 nanometers in diameter, and much more abundant than previously thought,...

Greenland ice loss is at ‘worse-case scenario’ levels, study findsGreenland is losing ice mass seven times faster than in the 1990s, a pace that matches the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s high-end warming scenario – in which 400 million people would be exposed to coastal flooding by 2100, 40 million more than in the mid-range prediction.
The alarming...